Ingredients:
4 cups prepared tomato juice
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. fresh lime juice
1 cup vodka
8 celery sticks with leaves
8 pickled okra spears
Directions:
- Add into a pitcher the first five ingredients. Stir well. Serve the pitcher with a glass of celery sticks and a second glass of long okra to use as stirring sticks. Near the pitcher, make a bottle of hot sauce available.
- On the tray with the pitcher and the other supporting things, have 8 rock glasses rimmed with salt at the ready.
- Rim your glasses with salt by dipping the rim of the glass into a saucer with lime juice. Dip the rim of the wet glass into a saucer of salt. It will stick to the rim. You can use this method to rim a glass with salt for a margarita or with sugar for a sidecar.
- Makes 8 4-ounce drinks.
*As printed in February 2026 of the Culinary Louisiana Calendar